18 March 2010: A Portrait from Turkey

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On Thursday, the 18th of March 2010 at 7.00pm Terry Duggan delivered a talk at Bir Mula Heritage about the earliest surviving portrait drawn from life (discovered on a lead seal) in Antalya Province (Turkey) in the year 2000. The implications regarding both the naturalistic portraiture in the Islamic world and also on the formative stages of the Italian Renaissance were discussed.

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